2026 Bjorn De Sutter: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	34	12273	11916	113	108	128	4202

Bjorn De Sutter publication distribution in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Computer Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Bjorn De Sutter sits on this spectrum.

32 publications 991+

This scientist: 128 publications — 18th percentile

18% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 991 publications or more.

Bjorn De Sutter D-index placement in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Computer Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Bjorn De Sutter sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 131+

This scientist: 34 D-Index — 16th percentile

16% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 131 D-Index or more.

Overview

Bjorn De Sutter is affiliated with Ghent University in Belgium. Their research primarily focuses on computer science, with a particular emphasis on information systems, signal processing, artificial intelligence, computer networks and communications, and software.

The scientist's scholarly output includes numerous papers published across multiple venues. Some of the frequent publication venues include:

arXiv (Cornell University)
SSRN Electronic Journal
Computers & Security
Software Practice and Experience
International Journal of Information Security

The main topics covered in their research are:

Advanced Malware Detection Techniques
Information and Cyber Security
Security and Verification in Computing
Software Engineering Research
Digital and Cyber Forensics
Safety Systems Engineering in Autonomy
Software Reliability and Analysis Research

Bjorn De Sutter has coauthored works with several frequent collaborators, including Bart Coppens, Jens Van den Broeck, Bert Abrath, Cataldo Basile, and Daniele Canavese.

Notable recent papers include the following:

"Sensei: Enforcing secure coding guidelines in the integrated development environment," 2020, published in Software Practice and Experience
"Obfuscated integration of software protections," 2020, published in International Journal of Information Security
"Design, implementation, and automation of a risk management approach for man-at-the-End software protection," 2023, published in Computers & Security
"Code Renewability for Native Software Protection," 2020, published in ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security
"Evaluation Methodologies in Software Protection Research," 2024, published in ACM Computing Surveys

The research presents a significant coverage of software protection techniques, secure coding practices, and methodologies for evaluating software security. Their work involves topics such as risk management in software protection and techniques to enhance software renewability and maintainability.

Best Publications

Compiler techniques for code compaction

Saumya K. Debray;William Evans;Robert Muth;Bjorn De Sutter

357
Citations
A Fast Algorithm to Calculate the Exact Radiological Path through a Pixel or Voxel Space

Filip Jacobs;Erik Sundermann;Bjorn De Sutter;Mark Christiaens

295
Citations
Practical Mitigations for Timing-Based Side-Channel Attacks on Modern x86 Processors

Bart Coppens;Ingrid Verbauwhede;Koen De Bosschere;Bjorn De Sutter

288
Citations
Effective Extensible Programming: Unleashing Julia on GPUs

Tim Besard;Christophe Foket;Bjorn De Sutter

260
Citations
It's a TRaP: Table Randomization and Protection against Function-Reuse Attacks

Stephen J. Crane;Stijn Volckaert;Felix Schuster;Christopher Liebchen

161
Citations
Program obfuscation: a quantitative approach

Bertrand Anckaert;Matias Madou;Bjorn De Sutter;Bruno De Bus

124
Citations
Software protection through dynamic code mutation

Matias Madou;Bertrand Anckaert;Patrick Moseley;Saumya Debray

121
Citations
Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Array Architectures

Bjorn De Sutter;Praveen Raghavan;Andy Lambrechts

120
Citations
DIABLO: a reliable, retargetable and extensible link-time rewriting framework

Unknown

119
Citations
Link-time binary rewriting techniques for program compaction

Bjorn De Sutter;Bruno De Bus;Koen De Bosschere

101
Citations
Hybrid static-dynamic attacks against software protection mechanisms

Matias Madou;Bertrand Anckaert;Bjorn De Sutter;Koen De Bosschere

95
Citations
Architecture enhancements for the ADRES coarse-grained reconfigurable array

Frank Bouwens;Mladen Berekovic;Bjorn De Sutter;Georgi Gaydadjiev

93
Citations
Refactoring using type constraints

Frank Tip;Robert M. Fuhrer;Adam Kieżun;Michael D. Ernst

91
Citations
Link-time optimization of ARM binaries

Bruno De Bus;Bjorn De Sutter;Ludo Van Put;Dominique Chanet

88
Citations
ARMor: fully verified software fault isolation

Lu Zhao;Guodong Li;Bjorn De Sutter;John Regehr

88
Citations
Compiler mitigations for time attacks on modern x86 processors

Jeroen V. Cleemput;Bart Coppens;Bjorn De Sutter

85
Citations
Rapid software prototyping for heterogeneous and distributed platforms

Tim Besard;Valentin Churavy;Alan Edelman;Bjorn De Sutter

83
Citations
Implementation of a Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Media Processor for AVC Decoder

B. Mei;B. Sutter;T. Aa;M. Wouters

76
Citations
SOFIA: Software and control flow integrity architecture

Ruan de Clercq;Ronald De Keulenaer;Bart Coppens;Bohan Yang

75
Citations
A Coarse-Grained Array Accelerator for Software-Defined Radio Baseband Processing

B. Bougard;B. De Sutter;D. Verkest;L. Van der Perre

74
Citations
On the static analysis of indirect control transfers in binaries

Bjorn De Sutter;Bruno De Bus;Koenraad De Bosschere;P. Keyngnaert

73
Citations
The HiPEAC Vision

Albert Cohen;Marc Duranton;Sami Yehia;Bjorn De Sutter

62
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Koen De Bosschere Ghent University

Frank Tip Northeastern University

Bart Preneel KU Leuven

Saumya K. Debray University of Arizona

Praveen Raghavan KU Leuven

Paolo Tonella Universita della Svizzera Italiana

Ingrid Verbauwhede KU Leuven

Olivier Temam DeepMind (United Kingdom)

Babak Falsafi École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Mary Lou Soffa University of Virginia

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